It's been a long week. I spent all of Tuesday at a customer in San Diego, I drove to LA on Wednesday and Thursday (twelve hours of driving over two days), and I've been on conference calls since 8:30 this morning. Everything went well, but my sleep definitely suffered.
D spent the week grading, cooking/cleaning/etc, and putting together various keepsakes, such as the collages I posted about on Wednesday. Her most recent is a beautiful shadow box with various items that remind us of Andrew and his stay in the NICU. I'll post pictures of it (and of our Christmas tree) later tonight.
D's boarding a plane to Phoenix at the moment, where she'll spend the weekend relaxing with our friends K&C. That means I'm a bachelor until Monday, which I hope to take advantage of by sleeping in as much as possible, taking some good naps, and spending a lot of quality time dozing off while watching movies.....did I mention I was tired?
About Me
- JR
- D's husband. Andrew's dad. Son, friend, cousin, nephew, grandson....the list goes on.
About This Blog
This blog was originally created to disseminate information about Andrew, our son who was born on June 15, 2007. Andrew was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) that allowed abdominal organs (stomach, intestines, etc) to migrate into his chest cavity during development. This prohibited normal lung growth, making it difficult for him to live without significant life support, including a ventilator, a lung bypass machine called ECMO, and a long list of medications.
Andrew spent the next five months at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, undergoing multiple operations for the hernia repair, intestinal rearrangement, stomach tube insertion, etc. Multiple attempts to help him breathe on his own without a ventilator were unsuccessful due to a number of anatomical and developmental difficulties. Andrew's failure to progress and an abundance of overwhelmingly unfavorable test results led us to remove him from life support and let nature take its course on November 19, 2007.
We greatly appreciate the time we were able to spend with Andrew, and this blog continues as a source for information, a tribute to his memory, and a continuation of our lives without him present. From the emotional to the mundane, our lives have been forever changed by his presence; those lives are now chronicled here.
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